Talk:Winding hole

Old English was in use up to and including the 18th century

Really? Is that actually in the cited source? Seems about seven centuries too late. 206.208.104.20 (talk) 17:40, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Pronunciation
A 'wine-ding' hole is where you TURN a boat around. It is related to the word 'turn' whether turning a key to wind a clock or turning the wheels of a vehicle to navigate a winding road. This is what I believed and it's confirmed by the OED. The concept of using the wind to turn a boat around is pretty much nonsense - unless someone can explain how that's supposed to work in all cases !